I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.